Science Saturday
If you want to follow the oil-cano story, The New Orleans Times-Picayune is a good place to start. Mac McClelland is also on the ground and tweeting about it. Mount…
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Brian Spears
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Brian Spears is Senior Poetry Editor of The Rumpus and the author of A Witness in Exile (Louisiana Literature Press, 2011). His poem “Upon Reading That Andromeda Will One Day Devour Triangulum and Come For Us Next” was featured in Season 9 of Motion Poems.
Harvey Milk Day
Harvey Milk should be celebrating his 80th birthday today. He can’t, but GLBT activists and their allies are going to. “The creation of the first official day of recognition for…
Saturday Morning Links
Picked up a brand new MacBook yesterday morning. Let’s see how it handles. Joshua Baldwin goes to Chinatown and finds some interesting things on the menu. To no one’s surprise,…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Austin Kleon’s Newspaper Blackout site (along the same lines as his book) is worth checking out. He’s also a more than fair Twitterer. Via Harriet, Andrea Lingenfelter talks about “teaching…
Science Saturday
Take a look at the next-generation supercars competing for the $10 million Progressive Automotive X Prize. Every thing that has ever lived on this planet probably evolved from a single-celled…
Saturday Morning Links
I’m learning how to make books this afternoon–sew them by hand and all that. No telling where that may lead. In the meantime, here’s some non-tree reading for you. To…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Tara Betts found herself attacked by a particularly ignorant political blogger named Debbie Schlussel over her class at UrbanWordNYC. Betts’s response is elegant, measured, and powerful, everything the attack was…
Funny Women Meets Broadsheet
Elissa Bassist, editor/curator of The Rumpus’s Funny Women series (submission guidelines here) is a new contributor to Salon’s Broadsheet. Her first offering is titled “Sleep Your Way to a Book…
Happy Birth Control Pill/Mother’s Day!
Okay, so I’m a day early, but the confluence of these two events is just too good to let pass with commenting. I have to admit, my personal bias is…
Science Saturday
Eyjafjallajökull–remember that?–is erupting again. Wonder what the US space program has in mind? Here’s one look at it. Have you ever wanted to hunt Burmese Pythons? Come to Florida. I…
Saturday Morning Links
Good morning. Let’s see what the tubes have for us today. Over at Harper’s, Mr. Fish adds to the Arizona immigration debate. Mother Jones explores the world of H-2A guest…
Foreign Until Proven Innocent
Joe Lieberman is introducing something he calls the Terrorist Expatriation Act–TEA Act for short, though the redundancy seems lost on them–which would make it possible for the State Department to…